ISABEL HUGGAN was born in Kitchener, Ontario, in 1943. In the decade following her BA, she worked as a copy editor, teacher, and newspaper reporter. Besides writing short stories, essays, and reviews, over the years she ledcreative writing workshops in Canada, Switzerland, France, Australia, and the Philippines. Leaving Ottawa in1987, shelived with her husband in Kenya andthe Philippinesand finally in France, where their restoration of an old stone house led to her final book Belonging. After the death of her husband in 2011, she opened a Writer's Retreat in her stone barn forindividuals looking fora quiet place to write.For twenty years wasa mentor for the Humber School for Writers correspondence program, and she has continued to work privately as a manuscript consultant. In 2020 she returned to Canada, and now lives in Orillia, Ontario.
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“From the richness of her experiences Huggan has fashioned a memoir
of singular beauty.” —London Free Press
“Fans of the calm, elegant intelligence of Alice Munro or Carol
Shields will feel right at home.” —Vancouver Sun
“Huggan’s story of her midlife move to France is what Peter Mayle’s
Provence should have been. An outstanding writer who speaks from
the heart with great intelligence, Huggan . . . explores what it is
to be in a new country, and what draws us to our old ones.” —Globe
and Mail
“Isabel Huggan takes the reader around the world, from France to
Canada to Kenya to the Philippines to Australia and back again. . .
. Her descriptions of the mountains, forests, and sea in Tasmania
are lyrical and lucid, as are all her evocations of landscapes. . .
. A remarkably strong and subtle voice.” —Toronto Star
“Huggan writes with a gentle thoughtfulness and her phrases are
suffused with beauty. . . . Her style is warm and confiding, like a
friend asking you in for tea on a dreary day. She explores her own
heart and mind with a deft touch and in the process answers some
big questions about who we are and how we became who we are. . . .
Belonging shows us that home is always with us.” —Hamilton
Spectator
“This is a book you’ll have to give away and buy another and
another—until finally you can keep one for yourself to read again
in the small hours our lives are made of.” —Lorna Crozier, author
of After That and Through the Garden
“A book about the yearning to belong, family ties, unexpected
friendships, and how life usually turns out to be quite different
from our plans. . . . [Belonging is] a pleasure to read and
provides an intimate look at a fascinating and open-minded woman.”
—Toronto Sun
"The book is part engaging memoir and part intriguing exploration
of how the creative mind works.” —Winnipeg Free Press
“Summer reading, I believe, should either draw you forcefully out
of your world, or draw you irresistibly further into it. Belonging
may do both. . . . This is not so much a book to read, as to
re-read. Huggan’s stories [are] graced with turns of phrase and
pockets of language that, well, make you turn down the page to go
back.” —The Observer
“The best part of this book is her candid and engaging voice. By
the time you turn the page on the last memoir in the collection,
you feel welcomed as a friend, made privy to confidences, epiphanic
insights, and intimate memories.” —Ottawa Citizen
“Belonging is an elegant, gracefully written reminiscence of what
it means to leave your home and native land. . . . It’s an
entrancing journey.” —The Sun Times
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